If there was life on Mars, it likely drove itself extinct through climate-change
If microbes can do this, we should be particularly worried with our own impact on the climate.
Tag: atmosphere
Snowfall in the Alps is full of plastics particles
This study says plastic pollution in the air is way worse than we imagined.
The lowest level of the atmosphere is expanding because of global warming
The troposphere is getting about 50 meters thicker per decade due the buildup of greenhouse gases, at a rate that ...
Why do stars twinkle, or do they twinkle at all? For astronomers, this is important
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Airborne microplastics have a growing influence on the climate, but we need more data
It's big enough to know something is happening. But we're still unsure exactly what.
Lightning discharges help clean the air of some greenhouse gases
We only found this out by accident.
Australia’s wildfires created a ‘record-breaking’ smoke plume in the upper atmosphere
Can’t have smoke without fire.
Pluto’s beating icy heart makes and breaks atmospheric winds
Pluto's heart-shaped basin may be as important for its climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate.
A new study says oxygen buildup on Earth was “inevitable,” and maybe on other planets, too
The findings offer renewed hope of finding oxygen on alien worlds.
Curiosity rover stumbles upon mystery of oxygen on Mars
Oxygen is rising and falling with the seasons unpredictably.
New capture technology scrubs atmospheric CO2 on the cheap
Saving money and saving the environment are my two favorite things.
Antarctic ozone hole at its smallest recorded size ever
Who said size doesn't matter?
Key variable used to study Mars’ ancient atmosphere varies during the day
This used to mess up our calculations, but now we understand why.
Spitzer confirms: no atmosphere on nearby exoplanet
Christened LHS 3844b, the exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than our planet and orbits its star in 11 hours.
Iron-breathing bacteria might have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for almost one billion years
Inhale iron, exhale rust.
The Earth’s atmosphere extends twice as far as the Moon, technically
You should probably try really hard to hold your breath around there, though.
Bombs dropped during the Second World War were felt to the edge of space
We've come a long way from being scared, scrawny apes in the savannah.
All this time, outer space was secretly much closer than we thought
Tricksy, tricksy space.
